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Evangelion Production Model-New 02α (JA-02 Body Assembly Cannibalized) (汎用ヒト型決戦兵器 人造人間エヴァンゲリオン JA-02 機体流用ニコイチ型 新2号機α?) is an Evangelion unit appearing in Rebuild of Evangelion film series. It appears in the film Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time, piloted by Asuka Shikinami Langley.
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- Official name
- Evangelion Production Model-New 02α (JA-02 Body Assembly Cannibalized) (汎用ヒト型決戦兵器 人造人間エヴァンゲリオン JA-02 機体流用ニコイチ型 新2号機α?)
It appears in the film Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time, where the unit is piloted by Asuka Shikinami Langley and alongside other members of WILLE, together with the repaired Evangelion Unit-08γ they fight against NERV during Operation Yamato. Unit-02α is equipped with the "Angel Blood" which it uses against Evangelion 13 in order to destroy it.
Features[]
The New Unit-02α is seen using a large number of handheld weapons, including an Autocannon, a Anti-Material Circular Saw and a naginata among many others. Being mostly mechanical, the unit uniquely possesses built in weapons in the form of missiles stored in its thighs. Finally, the unit features a large removable backpack with several rocket boosters for landing and dorsal mines. New Unit-02α also carries the Shutdown Override Signal Plug, a tool designed to stop Evangelion 13 from reactivating.
Like all other Evangelion, New Unit-02α can deploy a A.T. Field. However, the unit can only deploy the A.T. field from its right arm due to it being some of the only organic parts left.
As with its predecessors, this unit possesses a "Backdoor Code", this time activated with the numbers 999. When activated, Unit-02's limiters are released and the biological parts of the unit are injected with Angel Blood. Paired with the units pilot unsealing the Ninth Angel sealed within her, the unit is engulfed in light and transformed it into an angelic form. In this form, the unit has four arms, a power derived from the liberated angel.
History[]
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time[]
Unit-02 is repaired using parts acquired in the assault mission to the Euro-NERV facilities in Paris, France. It is repaired using parts of JA-02 as it body, since only the torso, abdominal innards, right arm and head are still present. It took part in the Operation Yamato.
New Unit-02α descending into NERV HQ
Aboard the Launched New EVA-02α Protection Specialized Custom Reffited Dedicated Defensive Warship, it is dropped with the Launched Improved EVA-08γ Protection Specialized Custom Refitted Dedicated Defensive Warship in the direction of the NERV headquarters, when it is met with the opposition with multiple Evangelion Mark.07s. Using the weapons attached to its body and also the weapons carried by Unit-08γ, they fight against the group as they approach their target. Both of the units use their A.T. Field in a combined drill shaped attack to destroy a massive amount of the enemy units.
Before arriving in the pyramid shaped object, it grabs Unit-08γ's hand and pulls it to its torso, using the engines to break their fall. Once inside, both units are attacked by a group of Arm Units. New Unit-02α fights against them using close quarters combat. Mari tells Asuka to go as she fights against the group, using Unit-08γ and her whip weapon. As New Unit-02α run towards the crater, four Arm Units follow her. however, New Unit-02 detaches the backpack set and uses it as a weapon. the set explodes, engulfing her enemies and projecting New Unit-02α into the crater.
Inside it, New Unit-02α grabs the Shutdown Override Signal Plug and walks toward Evangelion 13 in order to make it unable to activate. As it tries to pierce the core, a strong A.T. Field reaction occurs, repelling New Unit-02α. Asuka realizes that it was her own Evangelion A.T. Field instead of Evangelion 13.
Asuka unsealing the Ninth Angel
As Asuka apologizes to New Unit-02α, she disables all restrictors and activates backdoor code 999. Asuka removes her eyepatch revealing a blue eye, and a miniature sealing pillar from her eye emerges. Asuka removes the piller, and activates both her DSS Choker and the Pattern Blue signal. She injects Angel Blood from her right shoulder pylons that flow into New Unit-02α's core and remaining biological parts. Both Asuka and New Unit-02α contort themselves as the 9th angel pulls itself from the JA-02 mechanical body and a luminous arm appears from the previously dangling cables. the 9th angel uses this new arm to liberate itself from the old body and opens its mouth, with now sixteen shining eyes on each side. It explodes into a purple shining light destroying JA-02's mechanical body.
New Unit-02α after activating Backdoor Code:999
The still biological body of Unit-02 is engulfed by a pink light as the gigantic body emerges and keeps growing in size, even destroying the crater ceiling, the unit projects a white halo above it while the Shutdown Override Signal Plug is engulfed by a gigantic cross. The shoulder pylons disappear as a new set of blueish long arms appear. Using both arms, Asuka attempts to neutralize Unit-02's A.T. Field with her own in an attempt to pierce Evangelion 13's core.
Right as the A.T. Field was pierced, Evangelion 13 reactivates and destroys both the hands and the Shutdown Override Signal Plug, causing a cross shaped halo to appear. The gigantic being bursts into a luminous substance returning to its original size as Evangelion 13 grabs the units neck and pierces its torso, immobilizing the unit. New Unit-02α is finally destroyed when Evangelion 13 removes the entry plug causing the Evangelion to explode into a orange liquid similar to LCL.
The head of New Unit-02α is dropped at the AAA Wunder as Gendo Ikari talks with Misato and Ritsuko. Evangelion 13 bites the Entry plug killing the last angel and the ritual starts again.
Evangelion Production Model-New 02α makes it's last onscreen appearance when Gendo destroys all of the Evangelion Units with the Spear of Gaius piercing Unit-01 and Evangelion 13 to continue the Neon Genesis.
Trivia[]
- In the moments before destruction, the unit shows two liquid colors substances to come out, red and blue.
- Ikuto Yamashita gave an explanation to why Jet Alone was in Euro-NERV giving it a similar explanation to Mountain Cycles in the Turn A GundamWP anime series. [1]